Shine Bright: Black Women in Pop Music
Danyel Smith, Mariecar Mendoza
From formerly enslaved poet Phyllis Wheatley to Mahalia Jackson to Tina Turner, brilliant Black women have been instrumental\u2014indeed, foundational\u2014in creating America\u2019s pop music. Former Billboard editor Danyel Smith\u2019s \u201cShine Bright\u201d is an ode to the songbird geniuses that have been hidden in plain sight. In this conversation between Smith and the San Francisco Chronicle\u2019s Mariecar Mendoza, we\u2019ll celebrate a musical lineage as life-affirming as it is awe-inspiring.